

I've known them for several years. And I already knew that they have a certain amount of responsibility. But when they told me that one of them was managing a team of twenty people and the other that she had forty people under her responsibility, I was shocked. The first thing I did was ask them why they had never told me that. Because, in reality, they don't talk much about work. Or in a very different way from what we are used to when it comes to people who have a lot of authority.
We talked about it. I told them that if they had been men I would have known straight away. I'm not saying that all men tell this or that they tell it with the intention of boasting. But they do it much more easily. Maybe because, for some, work is part of the center of their life, or maybe because they take it more naturally to have powerful jobs. And this is not bad. On the contrary. I think that women should learn from this naturalness. But we still have many tics that make us associate the fact of explaining what we do with arrogance.
Since we were little girls, we have been taught to be discreet, to be good girls, to not stand out. Standing out is in bad taste and even those around you can experience it as a threat. Many women, in conversations among ourselves, have confessed that we do not talk about our successes or professional goals so as not to generate envy. So as not to seem pretentious. So that no one thinks we are conceited. And all because of a poor digestion of what a woman with a good professional career should be.
Then I remembered that day that in the WhatsApp group Lentejuelas, created by the stylist and communicator Marta Pontnou, where we are only women, I talked about As if it were yesterday, the series I work on. I said "my series" and I immediately came away. Because it's not true, it's not mine, it was created by Núria Furió. And there are between eleven and thirteen scriptwriters depending on the moment. Marta was clear about it. She said that she was the only scriptwriter in our chat. And that if she were a man she would have said "my series." And that's how it would be in the Lentejuelas world. We all applauded.
Screenwriter Marta Buchaca, when she received the award for best screenplay in 2021 for the film Only once At the Almería Film Festival, she made a claim for female ambition. A healthy and completely legitimate ambition. An ambition that we should be able to allow ourselves. An ambitious woman should not be Lady Macbeth. On the contrary. She is someone who wants to do very well at work and wants to go far. And explaining it, not hiding it, and celebrating it when we have achieved what we wanted, is also part of this new way of living ambition. From the desire to want to move forward. And to live it naturally and happily.
That night in 2021, from home, watching Marta collect the award on TV, Imma – her sister – and I called, happy and proud of what she had achieved. Of her confidence in claiming that we want to succeed. And that we do it not only for ourselves, but also for all the other women who watch us. Thank you, Marta. And thank you, Marta.